DARK AGES AMERICA

This is the Blog for MORRIS BERMAN, the author of "Dark Ages America". It includes current publications and random thoughts about U.S. Foreign Policy, including letters and reactions to publications from others.
A cultural historian and social critic, MORRIS BERMAN is the author of "Wandering God" and "The Twilight of American Culture". Since 2003 he has been a visiting professor in sociology at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
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January 26, 2013

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Dear Wafers, Lurkers, and Assorted Shirkers:
Once again I have no great insights to share at this point, being buried in my own work. In any case, let us continue documenting the ongoing collapse of the American empire, evidence for which confronts our eyeballs on a daily basis.
Oh well, I just remembered an old socialist joke I thought I might as well share with you:
A bunch of poor pig farmers in Upstate New York finally got tired of being exploited by the rich. So they gathered all of their pigs in a dozen or so trucks, and drove down to the city, to Tiffany's Jewelry on Fifth Avenue. There, they opened the truck doors, and tossed all of the pigs onto the sidewalk in front of the store. It was a classic case of throwing swine before pearls.
Ha Ha

About Me

Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, the Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (from the Media Ecology Association) in 2013. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.